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Pelagonia (Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ?e?a???ía) was an ancient region of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 later incorporated into Macedon
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
. It was roughly bounded by Dardania to the far north, Illyria
Illyria

'Illyria' was in Classical antiquity a region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula, inhabited by tribes of Illyrians, an ancient people who spoke the Illyrian languages....
 to the west and north, Paionia
Paionia

Paionia or Paeonia was in ancient geography, the land of the Paeonians , the exact boundaries of which, like the early history of its inhabitants, are very obscure but they were in the region of Thrace....
 to the east, and Lynkestis
Lynkestis

Lynkestis was a region of Upper Macedonia on the southern borders of Illyria which was ruled by kings, lords and independent or semi-independent chieftains till the later Argead dynasty rulers of Macedon neutralized their independence with dynastic alliances and the practice of bringing up tribal chieftains' sons in the palaces of Philip....
 to the south and west. The region was inhabited by Thraco-Illyrians, Pelagones, Paionians, and in 1900 BC Achaeans
Achaeans

The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
 and Aeolians
Aeolians

The Aeolians were one of the three ancient Ancient Greece tribes. The name comes from the fact that they were considered to be descended from Aeolus ....
. Pelagonia was the cradle of Mycenaean Greek tribes. Many pre-Mykenaic objects found in the area, such as the double ax, later found in Mykene.






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Pelagonia (Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ?e?a???ía) was an ancient region of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 later incorporated into Macedon
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
. It was roughly bounded by Dardania to the far north, Illyria
Illyria

'Illyria' was in Classical antiquity a region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula, inhabited by tribes of Illyrians, an ancient people who spoke the Illyrian languages....
 to the west and north, Paionia
Paionia

Paionia or Paeonia was in ancient geography, the land of the Paeonians , the exact boundaries of which, like the early history of its inhabitants, are very obscure but they were in the region of Thrace....
 to the east, and Lynkestis
Lynkestis

Lynkestis was a region of Upper Macedonia on the southern borders of Illyria which was ruled by kings, lords and independent or semi-independent chieftains till the later Argead dynasty rulers of Macedon neutralized their independence with dynastic alliances and the practice of bringing up tribal chieftains' sons in the palaces of Philip....
 to the south and west. The region was inhabited by Thraco-Illyrians, Pelagones, Paionians, and in 1900 BC Achaeans
Achaeans

The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
 and Aeolians
Aeolians

The Aeolians were one of the three ancient Ancient Greece tribes. The name comes from the fact that they were considered to be descended from Aeolus ....
. Pelagonia was the cradle of Mycenaean Greek tribes. Many pre-Mykenaic objects found in the area, such as the double ax, later found in Mykene. They are exhibited in the Museum of Bitola
Bitola

Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia. The city is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre....
. Later it was settled by the ancient Macedonians
Ancient Macedonians

The Macedonians were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Vardar, north of Mount Olympus in Greece....
. Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 (7.327) calls Pelagonia Tripolitis, referring to the three major cities of ancient Pelagonia.

Today, Pelagonia is a plain
Plain

In geography, a plain is an area of landscape with relatively high relief, as well as flat. Prairies and steppes are types of plains, and the archetype for a plain is often thought of as a grassland, but plains in their natural state may also be covered in shrublands, woodland and forest, or vegetation may be absent in the case of sandy or...
 shared between the Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
 and Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
. It incorporates the southern towns of Bitola
Bitola

Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia. The city is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre....
 and Prilep
Prilep

Prilep is a city of 66,246 citizens in the Republic of Macedonia and the List of cities in the Republic of Macedonia by population in the country....
 in the Republic of Macedonia and the northwestern Greek Macedonian city Florina
Florina

Fl?rina is a town and Municipalities and communities of Greece in mountainous northwestern Macedonia , Greece and its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'....
 in Greece; it is also the location of the lower key border crossing between the two countries Medžitlija-Niki
Medžitlija-Niki

The Med?itlija-N?ki, Greece border crossing linking the Republic of Macedonia with Greece is one of the three transit points for road vehicles between the two states....
. Also, this area was the place where the famous Battle of Pelagonia
Battle of Pelagonia

The Battle of Pelagonia took place in September of 1259, between the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus, Kingdom of Sicily and the Principality of Achaea....
 was fought between the Byzantines and the Latins.

See also

  • Pelagonia statistical region
    Pelagonia statistical region

    The Republic of Macedonia is divided in eight arbitrary statistical regions. Pelagonia statistical region is located in southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia....

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